From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: moving /gnu to different disk Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 23:29:08 +0100 Message-ID: <20160112222908.GA19839@debian> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41597) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJ7RL-0005ko-EF for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:29:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJ7RI-00060D-7g for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:29:23 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:54548) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJ7RH-000608-U4 for help-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 17:29:20 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: carl hansen Cc: help-guix@gnu.org On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 01:39:02PM -0800, carl hansen wrote: > I forsee problems when copying /gnu, not reproducing hard links > but reproducing the data. You can use rsync with the option "-H" to preserve hard links. I think your proposed solution with bind mounts will work, but I let the specialists confirm. Andreas